Here is Beethoven as we always used to hear him before the period-instrument bands got their teeth into the symphonies -an account of the Second, recorded live in Amsterdam just last year, that makes a virtue of the weight and depth of tone at the disposal of a great orchestra like the Royal Concertgebouw, and comes up with musical gestures on the same scale.
Unreliable information about the time of action within the cue integration framework predicts that as the precision (i.e. reliability or the inverse of variability) of the action cue decreases, the weighting of the tone cue and consequently action binding would increase.
It's so natural looking that it's only after a while that you understand how much Ms. Miller asks of her dancers in the quick changes of weight and tone, the extreme precision of the disconnected movement and its innate musical nuance.
It was, though, the D major sonata, D850, that revealed the characteristic essence of Schubert's piano writing, with Barenboim's mastery of tone, weight and touch turning the spotlight on details of this expansive work, which is playful, wistful and soaring by turns, almost as if Schubert was extemporising as he wrote his score.
And she has become more adept at varying the weight and tone of her work, so that it doesn't fall into easy polemic or parody.
This is a band of avant-garde improvising, somewhere along the way to jazz but closer in temper and style to abstract electronic music, where techniques are routinely invented from scratch and the weight and texture of tones, rather than melody lines and rhythm, make up the sound.
The interpretative engagement was obviously dramatic in the implacable opening movement of Op 111 but it was also subtly evident in the shimmering range of tone and weight that Lewis brought to the visionary sonorities and sustained trills of the sonata's finale.
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